Rush Limbaugh: Maybe debt isn’t that bad after all

El Rushbo on Tuesday expressed some doubt as to whether the national debt is as calamitous as deficit hawks claim:

I remember my parents and grandparents warning about the national debt…for 50 years, I have heard people warn about the ramifications of running up this debt…and throughout the 50 years, I don’t think anybody can dispute that the economy has grown.

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All my life, I heard how [debt] was gonna be the end of me– and it hasn’t been.

This is the one area in which Rush has repeatedly questioned (questioned, not disputed) conservative orthodoxy…